Data protection and digital competition
by Ian Brown and Douwe Korff
This analysis explains why the EU bans on Russian media outlets, and the Court of Justice judgment in RT France v. Council relating to them, are wrong. The bans limit the right of individuals in the EU to receive such information and ideas, while EU rules on sanction violations can easily lead to the use of the criminal law against individuals in the EU for non-violent political speech.
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Forthcoming reports for the EU by two former Italian prime ministers, “Super” Mario Draghi and Enrico Letta, are likely to be very influential on the next European Commission and Parliament. Here are some potentially far-reaching tech regulation-related comments they’ve made so far.
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Our responses to chapter 3 of Lord Anderson’s review of the UK Investigatory Powers Act, on the use of bulk datasets with “low/no expectation of privacy” by the intelligence agencies.
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The new US Executive Order does not change the fact the US authorities insist on carrying out indiscriminate, untargeted mass surveillance, also of EU persons and EU governmental and non-governmental entities, by means of bulk collection of data, without independent substantive judicial oversight or effective redress.
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The EU and US announced on 25 March they have “agreed in principle on a new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework”. But there is little in the announcement of the “political”/“in principle” agreement suggesting the EU Court of Justice’s high standards will be met.
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